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A burglar with a preference for meat and women's underwear got into an Allentown woman's apartment overnight Friday, police said. Nancy Fronk, 57, of the 200 block of S. Jefferson St., told police someone entered the apartment and took four pounds of hamburger, steaks, other food and underwear while she was away.

To the Editor: This letter is in response to the letter, "Hunters don't respect wildlife" on Dec. 5, which said deer hunting is a non-challenging, shameless act of violence. I ask, would you rather see deer slaughtered all over our roads and highways due to deer overpopulation? What a waste of good meat! I proudly took my first buck this year (eight pointer from Potter County) after 10 years of hunting, so it has been a challenge to me, as well as other hunters. If deer hunting is a cowardly act of violence, think about all of the turkeys butchered for our Thanksgiving feasts, or think about the poor cow the next time you or someone sits down to eat a juicy hamburger.

The owner of a Jim Thorpe restaurant has been accused of paying off a Sam's Club meat section employee in Lower Nazareth Township to sell him meat and seafood for much less than the actual retail price. Hassan Chafiq, 47, of Harvest Hill Drive, Effort, owner of the Trattoria 903 restaurant at Bear Creek Plaza, underpaid Sam's Club by $1,593 from September to December 2010, Colonial Regional police said Thursday. Chafiq paid off the employee for low prices on seven occasions, police said.

There's nothing like a juicy steak or burger on the grill on a super summer evening. If someone drops by your house and offers you a special on fresh meat, you'd better grill them about where it came from because they could be con artists looking to make you their main course. The Better Business Bureau is warning about meat-selling scams. It says it gets reports every summer from people who bought meat from door-to-door salesmen and were dissatisfied with the quality or even claim to have gotten food poisoning.

Above, Jeremy Duerksen, a ninth-grader at Christopher Dock Mennonite High School, Towamencin Township, dumps grease Monday while volunteering to help can meat for needy families. At left, Greg Weikel (left) and Phil Cassel, both Christopher Dock 12th-graders, stir ground pork at the school's portable meat-canning operation. The project's goal, sponsored by the Mennonite Central Committee, is to process 15,000 cans of meat in two days to fight world hunger.

An Allentown man was jailed on a charge of carrying prohibited offensive weapons after police confiscated a meat cleaver and knife he had yesterday morning. Harvey Fairfield, 49, of 617 N. 6th St. was stopped in the 800 block of Liberty Street yesterday morning during another investigation he was not charged in, police said, but was taken into custody when police discovered he was carrying the items. He was committed to Lehigh County Prison in lieu of $7,500 bail.

A meat smoker caused a small garage in Palmerton to catch fire yesterday, assistant Fire Chief Joseph Kercsmar said. Kercsmar said the device was against the one-car garage at 315 Lehigh St. and ignited the building just after 11 a.m. Palmerton Fire Department responded and spent almost an hour removing items stored in the garage to reach the fire, he said. "We arrived, and there was a lot of thick smoke coming from one part of the garage," Kercsmar said. "Only a small area was burning.

Earlier this week, it looked as if clerks at local Pathmark supermarkets had agreed to concessions that would save their jobs. By week's end, their sacrifices went for naught. Members of the meat and deli workers union rejected a proposed contract that would slash wages and benefits by about 14 percent. As a result, about 400 workers at Pathmark stores in Allentown, Bethlehem Township, Reading and Shillington will lose their jobs at the end of this month. It would be a tragedy if this happens because rules of the meat cutters' union, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 56, helped torpedo the clerks' efforts to keep the stores open.

To the Editor: I recently became acquainted with the Lehigh Valley Animal Rights Coalition. Through them I discovered much about the atrocities that "food" animals are forced to suffer throughout their short lives. The existence of their poor living conditions and inhumane handling is intolerable for an enlightened society such as ours. The awful things I've seen far surpass any terrors I've ever seen in a horror movie. It makes me wonder if the farmers, transporters, and other handlers working with these animals got their basic training at Auschwitz.